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October 20, 2006
Kitchen progress
It's been a while, for a number of reasons, but I'm hopefully back on track (at least for the time being). Little remains of the old kitchen except its footprint, which couldn't be significantly altered without moving exterior walls around--something we're not prepared to do. We're making progress, but there are some days where it seems like this project will never end.
So far, the guys have completely gutted the kitchen, revealing that the wall directly behind the kitchen sink had no insulation, which might have been why the plaster, floor, and floor joists had pretty much rotted away to nothing--especially when it's able to reach -30C inside your house. We've got new windows that actually open. The originals were long gone, and the fixed ones prevented any ventilation, making the kitchen an oven in the midst of summer. We've put in new wiring and plumbing, added a central vacuum line so that I can actually vacuum all of the house, run several sets of phone and CAT 5e cable, and plumbed in the range fan so that it actually vents outside, instead of into the basement stairwell. We've added R14.5 insulation, a significant improvement over the wood chips (and lack thereof) in the previous walls, and finished hanging the drywall yesterday evening. At present, we're waiting for the drywall mud to dry so that we can sand. Hopefully, this means that sometime in the next week or so the fully-assembled cabinets that are sitting in the living room, dining room, and porch will actually come to inhabit their new homes in the kitchen. I can hardly wait.
Posted by plainstext at October 20, 2006 07:06 PM
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